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The frontier that stopped moving

The frontier that stopped moving

1.[2p]

In what year were Varus and his three legions destroyed in the Teutoburg forest?

CorrectNot quite: 9

2.[3p]

How do we know the Kalkriese site belongs to the Varus disaster rather than a later campaign?

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The answer is: No coin recovered there is later than the issues Varus countermarked
The answer is: No coin recovered there is later than the issues Varus countermarked
The answer is: No coin recovered there is later than the issues Varus countermarked

3.[3p]

Criton's Dacian figure, as transmitted, is 5,000,000 Roman pounds of gold at 42 aurei to the pound. In billions of sesterces, what does that come to?

CorrectNot quite: 21

4.[2p]

Why is that figure rejected?

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The answer is: It is twenty-six years of the entire revenue of the empire
The answer is: It is twenty-six years of the entire revenue of the empire
The answer is: It is twenty-six years of the entire revenue of the empire

5.[3p]

Strabo's argument against occupying Britain was that

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The answer is: the garrison would cost more than the tribute would yield
The answer is: the garrison would cost more than the tribute would yield
The answer is: the garrison would cost more than the tribute would yield

6.[3p]

On that rule, why was Germany beyond the Rhine not worth taking?

Select all that apply

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The answer is: No cities to assess and collect through, No settled tradition of paying tax to anyone, Difficult terrain and a dispersed population, so a permanent garrison

7.[3p]

Hadrian's Wall ran 117.5 km with a garrison of about 10,000 men. How many men to the kilometre, to the nearest whole number?

CorrectNot quite: 85

8.[3p]

Match each feature of Hadrian's Wall to what it suggests.

  • a gate at every milecastle

  • a road running behind it

  • visibility over long distances

  • moving men along the frontier rather than outward

  • control and taxing of traffic, not exclusion

  • a statement about where Roman rule began

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a gate at every milecastle: control and taxing of traffic, not exclusion a road running behind it: moving men along the frontier rather than outward visibility over long distances: a statement about where Roman rule began

9.[3p]

What did a state that stopped conquering lose?

Select all that apply

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The answer is: Irregular income from plunder and indemnities, The main supply of newly enslaved people, The standard proof that a ruler deserved his position